Stephen Shaw on Deprogram with Michael Parker - 20 December 2022

GUEST OVERVIEW: Stephen J. Shaw is an acclaimed data scientist and documentarian the filmmaker behind the new documentary BIRTHGAP: Childless World. For the last 70 years, fertility rates have decreased by 50% worldwide, yet few of us have been thinking about the social and economic impact that communities will need to prepare for. The new film, shot in 24 countries, explores the phenomenon of the global birthrate decline through the lens of multiple societies worldwide to better understand why this is happening in the first place and how it will drastically affect the social and economic structures in the future.